2019 Week 1 of 52!
In reading coverage, for the Old Testament, that's Genesis 1-17 or so, and we can break that into seven days as follows:Jan 1 Gen 1,2
Jan 2 Gen 3,4
Jan 3 Gen 5,6,7
Jan 4 Gen 8,9
Jan 5 Gen 10,11
Jan 6 Gen 12,13,14
Jan 7 Gen 15,16,17
For the New Testament, that's Matthew 1-5 or so, and we can break that into seven days as follows:
Jan 1-2 Mt 1
Jan 3 Mt 2,3
Jan 4-5 Mt 4
Jan 6-7 Mt 5
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Gen 1-2.
Genesis 1 speaks about the creation often using categories of being: for example, light and darkness, prior to instances of it. Evening, morning, a day, prior to the lights governing the day and night.
God calling the darkness "night" is a point of rejoicing, meant to encourage anyone who would otherwise be tempted to feel that the darkness, and the face of the deep, the formlessness and void of the original, is frightening and ascendant. But to call the darkness "night," and that, done by God, at the beginning, is a reduction in the reader's fear of darkness, and the fear that darkness is original so could be the default to which things return. If God, creating on the first day, calls darkness "night," that is His estimate, and can become the readers' estimate, and our own, when we hear this.
Genesis 2 speaks about specifics: a specific place, the man, the location, the growths of particular things, the creation of woman with respect to the man, the events associated with a living situation for the man, the moral structure.
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